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Celebrate the new Welcoming Ordinance Campaign in State College Borough with thank you notes to Council members that also ask them to keep the spirit of thoughtful questioning and clear and transparent governance that they demonstrated in the July 6th meeting alive and well as we move forward.
State College Borough Council members
State College Mayor
Enormous thanks to all who shared their lived experience, to allies who made that sharing possible, to all who showed up and communicated your support for a strong, clear stance by the Borough of State College.
Watch this space for next steps, but in the meantime: a bit of rest and joy!
Want to help more right away? Join prevention work by showing up as an ally on patrols, or donate to mutual aid funds (see below).
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All volunteers need to take the Rapid Responder training before joining any team.
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being bilingual is a plus but not required; urgent need for Spanish and Chinese speakers - Community patrol team member in partnership with Peoples Brigade.
For more information, email peoplesdefensefront@protonmail.com - Workplace canvassing team member
outreach with Know Your Rights signs and more - Moshannon Accompaniment team member
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Celebrate the new Welcoming Ordinance Campaign in State College Borough with thank you notes to Council members that also ask them to keep the spirit of thoughtful questioning and clear and transparent governance that they demonstrated in the July 6th meeting alive and well as we move forward.
Enormous thanks to all who shared their lived experience, to allies who made that sharing possible, to all who showed up and communicated your support for a strong, clear stance by the Borough of State College.
State College Borough Council members sccouncil@statecollegepa.us
State College Mayor mayor@statecollegepa.us
Watch this space for next steps, but in the meantime: a bit of rest and joy!
Want to help more right away? Join prevention work by showing up as an ally on patrols, or donate to mutual aid funds (see below).
Call the Governor’s office in support of the Pennsylvania Immigration Coalition’s list of demands. Choose 1-3 to highlight yourself. Get 2 friends to do the same (and ask them if they want to get trained with CCRRN!). The full list of demands and phone, text, email, postcard contact info is all on a single page here.
Statewide petition for institutions and organizations.
Statewide petition for individuals.
Talk about what is happening.
- This State College article gives a lot of specifics about the August 2025 raids in Centre County. It is important to know that these were not the first incidents of harassment nor disappearance in this area in the last year, nor were they the last. We have regular confirmation that intrusive, active ICE surveillance is ongoing in our area.
- ICE is already in our community.
- At least five State College families have experienced family separation due to ICE arrests. In four of these cases, children were separated from a parent.
- ICE will continue to be in our community.
- ICE is working on securing field office space for 3 employees who will be working in the greater Altoona area. This includes State College.
- Silence is not protecting our community.
In the Moshannon Detention Center:
- The report linked in this news release from the Temple University Law School details specifics about the “Moshannon Valley Processing Center” which is the for-profit detention center for the disappeared and seized.
- Detainee sexual assault by prison chaplain (pp.13-18 of the full complaint, linked in the article, indicate this is a pattern, and that female staff also knew that Melhorn was not safe for women to be around). Timothy Snyder has published more about this activity, including a new lawsuit, here.
- Detainee suicide after days of isolation and inadequate interpretation. There is evidence that his hands and feet were bound.
Speak to your elected officials about how these actions harm you. Some possible asks are included in the article above as well as the Pennsylvania Immigration Coalition Statewide Campaign. Your faith denomination or civic group may also have letters you can sign or use as inspiration for your own letter or call to your elected officials.
Shut down Moshannon. If you know people in Clearfield County, it is important to know that the GEO Group’s current contract on the ICE detention center just outside Philipsburg depends on the Clearfield Commissioners’ votes. The current agreements expire near the end of September 2026. The commissioners must vote on the question of renewal. Learn more from these pages, consider canvassing to find out what Clearfield County residents would LIKE in their backyard (healthcare, for example?), and help your Clearfield County contacts reach out to their Commissioners.
Follow the money
Find out whether your institutions’ investment practices include a screen to exclude for-profit prisons or detention centers. If they do, thank them. If they do not, start asking for change, and organize others to do so, too.
Bank your values. Citizen’s Bank is one of the few banks that still finances for both Core Civic, and the GEO Group, both for-profit, publicly traded prison companies. GEO Group profits from imprisoning immigrants in the Moshannon Valley Processing Center (the biggest immigrant detention center in the Northeast, right next door to Philipsburg). Groups are organizing to get them to stop. Credit Unions are a great choice.
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